[U-Boot] Policy for checkpatch usage?

Wolfgang Denk
2011-04-22T12:46:03Z

Dear Graeme Russ,

In message <4DB15DD7.8050404@gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > I think it wouldbe even better if we could push our changes back into
> > the "mainline" version of checkpatch, so that the U-Boot specific
> > behaviour can beenabled by a command line option (checkpatch --uboot ?).
> >
> > Forking is not so preferrable here, I think.
>
> I agree, but if the Linux guys won't accept patches for U-Boot specific
> semantics, what choice do we have?

Did you ask him, and he refused, or is this just a hypothetical
question?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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